Philosophical verses about life.
Poems of mindfulness here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/mindfulness

REFLECTION

Great poems written in times past.

POET PLAYLISTS:
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/auden
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/william-blake
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gillian-clarke
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/e-e-cummings
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/walter-de-la-mare
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/dickinson
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/hsc-t-s-eliot
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/robert-frost
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/thomas-hardy
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/seamus-heaney
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/ted-hughes
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/keats
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/philip-larkin
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/mary-oliver
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/sylvia-plath
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/william-shakespeare
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/wordsworth
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/w-b-yeats

Classics

Recorded on the traditional lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation.
From her anthology ’Kindred’.
More poems of reflection here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/reflections-on-life

Trailblazer by Kirli Saunders

Reflective words as the poets looks out to sea to the English Channel from Dover.
GCSE POETRY PLAYLISTS:
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gcse-aqa-power_conflict
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/aqa-gcse-love-relationships
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gcse-aqa-worlds-lives
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gcse-edexcel-conflict
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/edexcel-time-and-place
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gcse-edexcel-relationships
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gcse-edexcel-belonging
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/international-gcse-edexcel
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/int-gcse-language-poetry-prose
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gcse-unseen-wjec-eduqas
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gcse-unseen-ocr
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gcse-unseen-ccea

Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold

Housman's wonderful ode to cherry blossom. Part II of 'A Shropshire Lad'.
More natural landscape poems here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/natural-landscapes

Loveliest Of Trees by A.E. Housman

Birdsong in English amidst the bleakness of winter.
POET PLAYLIST LINKS:
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/auden
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/william-blake
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gillian-clarke
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/e-e-cummings
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/dickinson
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/hsc-t-s-eliot
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/robert-frost
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/thomas-hardy
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/ted-hughes
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/keats
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/philip-larkin
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/william-shakespeare
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/wordsworth
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/w-b-yeats

The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy

Wordsworth's love of the natural world is showcased here.
POET PLAYLIST LINKS:
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/auden
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/william-blake
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gillian-clarke
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/e-e-cummings
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/dickinson
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/hsc-t-s-eliot
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/robert-frost
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/thomas-hardy
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/ted-hughes
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/keats
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/philip-larkin
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/william-shakespeare
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/wordsworth
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/w-b-yeats

Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth

For student study and teaching resources. Can also be used as unseen poems for those doing other exam boards.
POET PLAYLIST LINKS:
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/auden
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/william-blake
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gillian-clarke
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/e-e-cummings
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/dickinson
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/hsc-t-s-eliot
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/robert-frost
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/thomas-hardy
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/ted-hughes
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/keats
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/philip-larkin
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/william-shakespeare
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/wordsworth
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/w-b-yeats

I Started Early, Took My Dog by Emily Dickinson

How thoughts of love can lift someone out of depressive thoughts.
POET PLAYLIST LINKS:
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/auden
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/william-blake
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gillian-clarke
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/e-e-cummings
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/dickinson
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/hsc-t-s-eliot
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/robert-frost
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/thomas-hardy
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/ted-hughes
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/keats
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/philip-larkin
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/william-shakespeare
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/wordsworth
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/w-b-yeats

Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare

More poems of reflection here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/reflections-on-life

The Little Boy And The Old Man by Shel Silverstein

The Sunlight on the Garden by Louis MacNeice

More positive poems of calm and comfort here: soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/mindfulness

To Laugh Often and Much by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Crumbs Under The Table by Abdellatif Laabi

Ex-BBC Broadcaster readings of poetry & stories + archive radio/audio features. PLEASE SHARE LINKS with others. 
I’m a self-confessed sound, speech and language nerd.

Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold

Anton Jarvis